Alan Dershowitz certainly doesn't waste any time in trying to shut down academic freedom. Hampshire SJP is reporting that Dershowitz has already contacted them with a threat. From the Hampshire SJP blog:
Allen Dershowitz has just called SJP members and has threatened to start an international campaign to divest from Hampshire College – we need your support! We will be beginning an international fundraising drive to help Hampshire the negative backflash for this stand against the illegal occupation of Palestine. We will also have other ways to support us.
Please stay tuned!
Not sure what exactly divesting from Hampshire would look like, but this does seem a bit ironic from the person who has railed against the academic boycott of Israel. (Adam Horowitz)
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"this does seem a bit ironic from the person who has railed against the academic boycott of Israel."
Cognitive Dershonance
Someone should start a drive to 'divest' Harvard of Dershowitz for hate speech.
I wonder if Dershowitz can top his major flop of rushing into a Mearsheimer Walt criticism, whilst forgetting he himself wrote:
My generaton of Jews was too young to fight against Nazism or for Israeli independence, too American to make aliyah (emigrate to Israel), too comfortable to put our bodies on the line for anything Jewish. Instead, we observed, contributed… We became part of what is perhaps the most effective lobbying and fund-raising effort in the history of democracy.
Its a wonder how Dershowitz has any credibility left.
Dershowitz has credibility left?
I hear this shit from Dershowitz and I think of this exchange from the Simpsons:
Bart: "Do you even HAVE a job anymore?"
Homer: "I think it's pretty OBVIOUS that I DON'T!"
My sister went to Hampshire. Wonderful place. Their endowment is tiny…and they're so out there left I wonder if even a boycott by PEP's can hurt them much. We'll see. It's not the kind of place to hop to it and get in line.
*FROM HOROWITZ POST, ABOVE – "…this does seem a bit ironic from the person who has railed against the academic boycott of Israel."
*DIAGNOSIS: chronic pathological hypocrisy (per Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush)
Obviously Hampshire's boycott, based on lies and predjudice, will be short lived. Interesting to see if America will divest itself from Hampshire, or is the place so insignificant as to be not worth the bother?
I'm sure of one thing. Whatever the story really is Phil and Adam etc. will get it wrong.
"College denies divesting over IDF ties"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304768171&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Does anyone really believe that Alan Dershowitz called this silly group to threaten them? How absurd.
Dershowitz's threats are nothing to ignore. All he has to do is a make a few calls to a few major Jewish donors who, in turn, will call the president of the school to say they are "re-evaluating" their contributions to the school's building fund. It probably won't take him 30 minutes. The Hampshire president will then trip all over himself pulling a Larry Summers and proclaiming that any divestment drive against Israel is by definition anti-Semitic. If it happened at Harvard and it happened at Columbia it can certainly happen at Hampshire College.
The actual reasons for Hampshire's new re-investment policy can be found below. It is misinformation that the college has divested from Israel. A student group on Hampshire's campus co-opted a decision the school made to re-invest it's stocks into a more socially responsible index.
You can read the statement of clarification from the Chair of the Board of Trustees here:
http://www.hampshire.edu/news/11271.htm
Anyone going to the J-Post url Julian provided will see that J-Post's title for the article is a misrepresentation of the contents of the article's body content. J-Post's bias and readers are well known. Note who in the article is not named individually. That's the best they could do. First S Africa, next Israel; keep the mojo working. Contact the school to urge support. Spread the world any way you can.
There's no question the review of "socially responsible" business investments was instigated by the Palestine freedom fighters on campus.
It's admitted clearly. Caterpillar is the most obvious specified example of such social negligence. Let the divestment procedure continue, under any name socially responsible institutions need to call it. Campus activists, send out the word to other campuses. Alert every news
agency.
Yes, let's beat the zionists at their own game. There's nearly countless NGOs, charities, "think tanks" etc working 24/7 and getting IRS tax breaks, and USA funding in the USA. You would never know by the name they call themselves that they are constantly working towards Israel uber alles. They love to take patriotic American names for themselves.
I don't know of this divestment action. I worked for Hampshire College in their fiscal office for two years.
Hampshire is noted for two apparently distinct strengths:
1. The presence of prominent dissenting commentators on the Middle East historically and currently. Eqbal
Ahmad, Michael Klare
2. The strength of its Jewish studies program and the site of the National Yiddish Library on Hampshire College Campus.
I personally was involved with fiscal oversight of their federal and private foundation grants, of which the majority in dollar volume was related to Jewish studies, including scholarships, chairs, etc.
It is a uniquely liberal college, but liberal in the sense of pro-peace.
Its tuition is among the highest in the nation, and although they attempt to be quite liberal with the limited amount of scholarship money that they do have available, it is extremely limited.
Hampshire is an ELITE college.
I'll look further into this "action".
For Adam,
Divesting from Hampshire College means pulling funding for perhaps 6 full-time scholarships, likely 2 faculty positions, funding for its library.
It represents what occurs with divestment of academic institutions.
While Dershowitz, like Podhoretz, like Finkelstein are proud of their pugilistic personality, his suggestion is an artful "civil disobedience", in the pointing to the irony of seeking to divest from academia on the part of the "dissenting" community.
What's good for the Anti-Zionist goose is good for the Dershowitz gander.
Love it! lol!
"The actual reasons for Hampshire's new re-investment policy can be found below. It is misinformation that the college has divested from Israel. A student group on Hampshire's campus co-opted a decision the school made to re-invest it's stocks into a more socially responsible index."
Thanks for clarification! What's the name of the student group? And does this mean it was an empty gesture? No divestment to take place?
I guess Dershowitz sees nothing wrong with boycotts and divestitute.
Boycotts for the right reasons are to be supported. Boycotting Israel over defending its citizens from palestinian terrorism is nothing short of bullshit.
You may spoon it up, but those with an actual education see this canard for what it is.
Shut the fuck up Berel.
Sure, LD, anything any Nazi wants.
If Mr. Berel would actually live in Sderot he would know that bombing the shit out of your neighbors and yelling "kill the Arabs" does not make one safer.
Of course Mr. Berel is a fat ass somewhere else cheering "for the Jews" because his parents have told him to always cheer "for the Jews", for when Jews really were in danger and targeted as Jews (and not as occupiers, like the endangered Jewish individuals in Sderot) said parents did not much to prevent the Holocaust.
Sure, LD, anything any Nazi wants.
Posted by: chris berel
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Good chris, then STFU! (bet it turns out you're just a lying douche like Dersh).
I would not expect that yelling "kill the arabs" at a rally does much of anything. However, it is far milder than what is taught to Islamic children in their home, street, school, and mosque.
My parent's told me to think for myself, not follow some genocidal maniac diguised as a Jew, like Philips, or some nazi like LD, Lance, or you.
Also for Adam, don't forget about the 12 occupations in Britain. Another had a sit-in today.
The British have always been slightly insane, especially after the Americans kicked the shit out of them in the 1700's and took over the world from them after WWII.
Dershowho?
Dershow who pipped pip.
Of America's Nobel Prize winners in science and economics, nearly 40 percent have been Jews. Of America's 200 most influential intellectuals, half are full Jews, and 76 percent have at least one Jewish parent. Jews attend Ivy League colleges at ten times their presence in the general population. It is no wonder that so many non-Jews believe that we constitute so much higher a percentage of the American population than we actually do. Jews today are equal in virtually every way that matters. What could not have been said even at the end of the 1980s can be said today: American Jews are part of the American mainstream; we are truly victims no more.
Yet despite these enormous gains, many older Jews do not seem to be able to give up their anachronistic status as victims. A recent book on the American Jewish community notes: "[A]bout a third [of affiliated Jews in San Francisco said] that Jewish candidates could not be elected to Congress from San Francisco. Yet three out of four Congressional representatives … were, in fact, well identified Jews at the time the poll was conducted. And they had been elected by a population that was about 95 percent non-Jewish."
Nor is this misperception limited to California. According to journalist J.J. Goldberg, "[T]he percentage of Jews who tell pollsters that anti-Semitism is a `serious problem' in America nearly doubled during the course of the 1980s, from 45 percent in 1983 to almost 85 percent in 1990." Yet by every objective assessment, the problem was less serious in 1990 than it was in 1983, and the trend has clearly been in the direction of improvement.
'The Vanishing American Jew', Alan Dershowitz
The most apt, concise description of Dershowitz's character is that of unalloyed trial attorney. Simply put, he first reaches his conclusion, then sets off in search of facts to support his predetermined position. The results are widely contradictory opinions and a passing familiarity with objectivity. For example, in the passage above he approvingly cites the disproportionate success and influence of Jewish Americans in the sciences, business, the arts, the media and politics, and yet when an unapproved source references the same level of influence, Dershowitz ignites into a spasm of involuntarily clucks, repeatedly charging 'anti-semitism' like a chicken with Tourette syndrome.
Why would he contact Hampshire? Why wouldn't he? He is identified in interviews as an unabased defender of all things Israel.
Yet another profound statement from Berel. Reducing 300 years of British history and national psychology to one poorly written sentence.
Poor mark and his inability to understand science. First you make some observations. Then you form a theory based on those observations. Then you try to prove it true.
Why does mark resemble a chicken?
The brutalisation of the zionist geopolitique, clearly more degenerate and savage than even the corniest and bloodiest sam peckinpah-style hollywood 'western' level of brutalisation, nicely on display here:
The British have always been slightly insane, especially after the Americans kicked the shit out of them in the 1700's and took over the world from them after WWII. Posted by: chris berel | February 12, 2009 at 07:26 PM
Our Berel is a busy little boy..and these are just a few from the hits on Berel..quite the spammer.
http://www.kawther.info/hatemail.html
"Chris Barel" (or "Berel") is from the imaginary Law company "Taylor, Baxtor and Neuland Associates" which is apparently located in Hollywood, Florida, his address is listed as a known origin of spam. So, Israel and Zionism need as friends a spammer and coward who hides behind a false name and an untraceable dialup connection to send an Email intended as an insult. What should one think of those who have such friends ?
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/11/07/this-week-in-palestinian-blogs-more-violations-of-human-rights-and-a-little-bit-of-art/
Chris Berel:
Amazing how many lies can fit in one little blog. Mary of peace palestine has outdone herself! Bravo!!!
November 8th, 2005 at 18:14 pm
thecutter:
chris, the internet troll who joins pro-Palestinian mailing lists so that he can spam them. If you should find something from him in your mailbox, delete it without delay.
US Considers Quashing Report Critical of Israel | BREAK THE MATRIX
Jul 23, 2008 … I didn't like him much as Chris Berel, but he was starting to grow on me as Ibrahim. Why do I have to get used to a whole new screen name? …
http://www.breakthematrix.com/content/US-Considers-Quashing-Report-Critical-of-Israel-0 – 126k
Talkbacks Peretz: Arab world should be part of new Gaza order …
4. Time for a showdown. Israel should have attacked much sooner but late is better than never. Chris Berel ,, Glasgow, Montana, (12.29.08) …
http://www.ynet.co.il/english/Ext/App/TalkBack/CdaViewOpenTalkBack/1,11382,L-3646106,00.html
Slate -> The Fray -> Best of the Fray
There was no peace before the settlements. There will likely be no peace after the boundaries are set. Posted by: chris Berel | January 28, 2009 at 11:08 PM …
fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/2377027.aspx – 31k
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Take a look at Berel on Facebook…can you imagine what his parents look like?
chris berel, divestment based on LIES?
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28715&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Oh, I think not my friend, i think not!
The truth shall set you free – and will come out eventually, like all horrors eventually do, to the shock and amazement of the common man and woman. 'Tis only time.
CORRECTION, chris berel:
The 'Americans' were not the ones who "kicked the shit" out of the British, as you claim, but rather it was the French – only with their aid was the triumph of the Americans possible. Plus, far from "kicking the shit out of" the British, it was more like a guerilla-style war which proved impossible for the foreign invader to win. Clearly, we Americans have not yet learned from this clear lesson provided by the British so long ago – you cannot beat a whole peoples on their own land, you cannot fight a war against guerillas and a generally hostile foreign public on their own land forever.
I know you are not American, but before you spout claims about American 'history' and make your divisive, hateful comments, which clearly is what you are good at, at least try to make said comments based in a little fact.
I knew that loser was part of that Zionist megaphone idiocy. Fucking losers
If chris berel was an American he would know that the legal principles he depends on originated in England, e.g., Magna Carta, English Common Law.
Posted by: Nancy | February 13, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Totally true and well said.
Here's a petition you can sign to tell Abe Foxman he should live up to his Org's mission statement by condemning Israel for working to strip its arab citizens of their rights: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/301/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1840
Two points: First, Berel you have incorrectly stated the protocol for the scientific method, which was a topic of study in my 12-year old's science course last academic year. If he has the time, I will schedule a tutorial for you. Second, the adversarial legal system is not based on the scientific method. In fact it is patently unscientific. A lawyer is hired or appointed to represent a client's position (in this case Dershowitz is the self-appointed defense counsel for the State of Israel), and that lawyer must zealously advance, or defend, his client's position regardless of how weak it may be. In practice this means that a competent trial attorney should be able to mount a convincing, but not necessarily winning, case that the earth is flat, or, as was done for many years in the past, that there is no clear scientific evidence that tobacco use is harmful.
As to Berel's motives, what he and his handlers don't seem to understand is that rather than undermine criticism of Israel, his substance-free assertions and name calling actually appear to be strengthening the resolve of Israel's critics. They also empower people who previously thought that the issue was too complex, as Berel's points are so easily deconstructed.
So keep up the good work, Berel.
An idea, Berel. I frequently drive by the Verizon store, or Dunkin' Donuts, and part of their advertising budget is used to employ people who dress up in these foam and nylon costumes, like a big cell phone or a six-foot cup of Dunkin' latte. Perhaps you could convince your employers to have a big foam costume made in the shape of Israel, and you could stand by the side of the road at the local mall, whooping it up, urging passing motorists to honk for Israel. Give it some thought. I really think that is where your talent lies.
Perhaps you could convince your employers to have a big foam costume made in the shape of Israel, and you could stand by the side of the road at the local mall, whooping it up, urging passing motorists to honk for Israel. Give it some thought. I really think that is where your talent lies.
Posted by: marc b.
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xD
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